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Consultants typically work on a single project. However, they can work on up to 4 projects. This is handled by different pages in the existing spreadsheet. In the future, we'd like to allow for more than 4 projects.
Consultants only record actual billing time. We'd like to allow for more fidelity, e.g. travel, corporate contributions:
Corporate Contributions: Presenting at Conferences & User Groups, Publishing in magazines and books, Internal development such as course development, Certification
Travel Time: Billable & Non billable
Under Client time: Development, Mentoring, Infrastructure
Configurable email reminders would be handy
A formatted email, which could be replied to, to allow time tracking would be nice
All projects have a single engagement manger. The same engagement manager can manage multiple projects. Time sheets, once turned in, are reviewed by the engagement manager. Engagement managers need to be informed when the y have time sheets to improve. When all parts of a time sheet are approved (e.g. working on multiple projects), the time sheet is successfully completed.
All of this is true for expense reports.
Generating summary reports of hours worked on a project, billing clients, expense reports, etc. are were the real time-savings could happen. This is very important as we're running out of capacity to keep up on a monthly basis.
Time Tracking Product Owner
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